First performance: August 23, 1971 at the Auditorium Theater, Chicago. It appeared in the first
set, between "Beat It On Down the Line" and "Me and My Uncle." It's been a regular in the
repertoire ever since.

There has long been confusion over the song's title. Hunter, in
A Box of Rain, titles it "Brown-Eyed Women,"
while the listing on the cover of Europe '72 calls it "Brown-Eyed Woman."
According to DeadBase VIII:

"Willy Legate of the Grateful Dead Archives kindly informed us that although the title was
copyrighted as Brown-eyed Woman (that's how it appears on the album and/or songbook),
Robert Hunter actually wrote and intended it to be Brown-eyed Women, the way Jerry
Garcia really sings it. This is a classic case of a typographical error."--p. vii.

"Redeye: n. 1. Whisky of very poor quality. In full redeye whisky. ... 1819
QUITMAN in Claiborne Life Quitman I. 42 Whiting and I had a treat to 'red-eye,'
or 'rot-gut,' as whiskey is here [Ky.] called." --
Dictionary of Americanisms.

A fellow traveler turned me on to this cool project and I thought I'd
send you my interpretation of the line "tumbledown shack in Bigfoot
County". I've always taken that to be the nick name of the county just
south of my own Jackson Co. on the California/Oregon border- Del Norte
or Humbolt County being popular places where Bigfoot was seen in the
early days of timber and mining activity . Plus when it snows there it
dumps.

Brown-eyed Women is one of my favorite songs, it reminds me of my
father, I tend to cry every time I hear it.